Elective Affinities

Documentary

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Karel Vachek

Status Released

Release Date 1968-11-08

Storyline

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.